Kuwait: Ali Al Dhaheri, Ahmed Jamal Al Din and Yasmine Al Attar
The UAE cycling team imposed its dominance on cycling competitions, and tweeted away from its competitors in the Gulf Games following winning 11 colored medals out of 14 that were generally allocated to the cycling competition in the session.
The UAE women’s national team achieved the full mark by winning 4 golds out of 4, while the men’s team achieved 3 golds, two silvers and two bronzes.
The UAE cycling team concluded its distinguished and distinguished journey in the third edition of the Gulf Games hosted by the State of Kuwait, by winning 3 new medals in the men’s road race for individual and team.
Ahmed Al-Mansoori won the gold medal in the road competition for the men’s individual category 1:49:35, while Yousef Mirza won the bronze medal, Bahrain’s Ahmed Nasser won the silver medal, and our national team, consisting of Youssef Mirza, Ahmed Al-Mansoori, Jaber Al-Mansoori, Khaled Mayouf, Saif Mayouf Al Kaabi, Walid Al Naqbi for the team gold in the road race.
In terms of e-sports competitions, Salem Al-Suwaidi and Ibrahim Al-Hammadi won the silver of the “FIFA” game, and in the competitions of the first day of judo, the players of the national team were able to gift the UAE 3 colored medals; Where Guram Dranashgeli won the gold medal in the under 66 kg weight following defeating Kuwait’s Issa Al-Marzouq, Saudi Mu’nis Hawsawi and Bahraini Mohammed Nayef. kg.
The UAE rose to fourth place in the general ranking table with 34 colored medals, 12 gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze. Kuwait strengthened its lead in the table with a total of 62 medals, 23 gold, 19 silver and 20 bronze, while Bahrain came in second place with 48 medals, 17 gold, 19 silver and 12 Bronze, and Qatar ranked third with a total of 39 medals, 12 gold, 15 silver and 12 bronze, followed by Oman in fourth place with a total of 27 medals, 11 gold, 5 silver and 11 bronze, and Saudi Arabia came in fifth with a total of 36 medals, including 8 gold, 10 silver and 18 bronze.
win and lose
The ice hockey team defeated its Saudi counterpart 5-1 at the beginning of its matches in the group stage, and Abdul Rahman Al-Janahi, the tennis player, lost to his Saudi counterpart Suleiman Al-Qasim in the round of 16 competitions.
The table tennis team narrowly lost to its Kuwaiti counterpart 2-3 in the team competition, which was represented by the young trio Salah Al Balushi, Abdullah Al Balushi and Issa Al Balushi. Futsal, losing to his Saudi counterpart by four goals to one in the match to determine the third and fourth places.
The 95th meeting of the Executive Office of the Council of Presidents of the Gulf Olympic Committees, which was held on the sidelines of the session, witnessed the approval of the establishment of the first edition of the Gulf Junior Sports Games in the UAE, in 2023.
The meeting discussed frameworks of cooperation between the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Jordan in the sports field and ways to enhance them in the coming period, and many topics that would enhance joint Gulf action in the sports and Olympic fields.
Engineer Azza bint Suleiman, Assistant Secretary-General of the National Olympic Committee for Administrative and Financial Affairs, participated in the 95th meeting of the Executive Office of the Presidents of the Gulf Olympic Committees.